I'm lazy, so this is a repost from Scan New England
In May I was desperately in need of a new vehicle. After one false start I was able to find an offer I couldn't refuse.
I had been looking for a Ford Explorer Police Interceptor for ease of radio instalation. The dealer I ended up at said he had a 2014, but it wasn't a PI-I told him that if it had a center console with shift I wasn't interested. He asked me to take a look anyway. When I got to the car and opened the door, I immediately told him I was interested. His price was already in an area where I wasn't going to haggle.
I am told that the car was the Colonel of the Pennsylvania State Police's take home vehicle. The title lends Creedence to that. It had a Havis console already installed and the power was still run to it.
I ordered the faceplates and installed my radios, I used the one NMO that was left in the vehicle (the LOJACK antennae had Ben removed and holes plugged.) I added two NMO mounts to the rear of the vehicle and ran my antennas.
The outside
The antennas-L-R NMO 150/450/800fedto the SDS200, Forward is a cheap ebay dual band antenna that sucks as a HAM antenna but makes a decent low profile scanner antenna which is fed to the 996XT, Rear is the factory AM/FM antenna and the right most antenna is a low profile Antennex 450-470which feeds to the Icom F2821D.
The console from the dash back:
Amazon Echo Auto to left of shifter
Samsung TAB A 8.0 on a RAM-A-Can mount with Tabtite mount
TAC-9 Radio in Cupholder
3 Cigarette Lighter/2 USB port plate
SDS200
996XT
Icon F2821D
Wider view showing the Anker Roav C2 Pro Dash Cam
Finally, the GPS unit for the SDS200. I put it in the same place where they had left the GPS antenna for the Harris radio (they also left the radio bracket under the passenger seat. I drove it to Detroit overthe July 4th holiday and it worked flawlessly with the nationwide database.
In May I was desperately in need of a new vehicle. After one false start I was able to find an offer I couldn't refuse.
I had been looking for a Ford Explorer Police Interceptor for ease of radio instalation. The dealer I ended up at said he had a 2014, but it wasn't a PI-I told him that if it had a center console with shift I wasn't interested. He asked me to take a look anyway. When I got to the car and opened the door, I immediately told him I was interested. His price was already in an area where I wasn't going to haggle.
I am told that the car was the Colonel of the Pennsylvania State Police's take home vehicle. The title lends Creedence to that. It had a Havis console already installed and the power was still run to it.
I ordered the faceplates and installed my radios, I used the one NMO that was left in the vehicle (the LOJACK antennae had Ben removed and holes plugged.) I added two NMO mounts to the rear of the vehicle and ran my antennas.
The outside
The antennas-L-R NMO 150/450/800fedto the SDS200, Forward is a cheap ebay dual band antenna that sucks as a HAM antenna but makes a decent low profile scanner antenna which is fed to the 996XT, Rear is the factory AM/FM antenna and the right most antenna is a low profile Antennex 450-470which feeds to the Icom F2821D.
The console from the dash back:
Amazon Echo Auto to left of shifter
Samsung TAB A 8.0 on a RAM-A-Can mount with Tabtite mount
TAC-9 Radio in Cupholder
3 Cigarette Lighter/2 USB port plate
SDS200
996XT
Icon F2821D
Wider view showing the Anker Roav C2 Pro Dash Cam
Finally, the GPS unit for the SDS200. I put it in the same place where they had left the GPS antenna for the Harris radio (they also left the radio bracket under the passenger seat. I drove it to Detroit overthe July 4th holiday and it worked flawlessly with the nationwide database.
